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Auftrag von Aidan Hogan
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2018 21:33
An: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Cc: José Ignacio .
Betreff: Re: [Wikidata] GraFa: Faceted browser for RDF/Wikidata
[thanks!]
Hi all,
On behalf of José and myself, we would really like to thank the
people who tried out our system and gave us feedback!
Some aspects are left to work on (for example, we have not tested for
mobiles, etc.). However, we have made some minor initial changes
reflecting some of the comments we received (adding example text for
the type box, clarifying that the numbers refer to number of results
not Q codes, etc.):
http://grafa.dcc.uchile.cl/
To summarise some aspects of the work and what we've learnt:
* In terms of usability, the principal lesson we have learnt (amongst
many) is that it is not clear for users what is a type. For example,
when searching for "popes born in Poland", the immediate response of
users is to type "pope" rather than "human" or "person" in
the type box.
In a future version of the system, we might thus put less emphasis on
starting the search with type (the original reasoning behind this was
to quickly reduce the number of facets/properties that would be shown).
Hence the main conclusion here is to try to avoid interfaces that
centre around "types".
* A major design goal is that the user is only ever shown options
that lead to at least one result. All facets computed are exact with
exact numbers. The technical challenge here is displaying these
facets with exact numbers and values for large result sizes, such as
human:
http://grafa.dcc.uchile.cl/search?instance=Q5
This is achieved through caching. We compute all possible queries in
the data that would yield >50,000 results (e.g., human->gender:male,
human->gender:male->country:United States, etc.). We then compute
human->their
facets offline and cache them. In total there's only a couple of
hundred such queries generating that many results. The facets for
other queries with fewer than 50,000 results are computed live. Note
that we cannot cache for keyword queries (instead we just compute
facets for the first
50,000 most relevant results). Also, if we add other features such as
range queries or sub-type reasoning, the issue of caching would
become far more complex to handle.
In any case, thanks again to all those who provided feedback! Of
course further comments or questions are welcome (either on- or
off-list).
Likewise we will be writing up a paper describing technical aspects
of the system soon with some evaluation results. Once it's ready we
will of course share a link with you.
Best,
Aidan and José
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: GraFa: Faceted browser for RDF/Wikidata [feedback
requested]
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:47:18 -0300
From: Aidan Hogan <aidhog(a)gmail.com>
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
<wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
CC: José Ignacio . <joshep(a)live.cl>
Hi all!
Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow we will close the
questionnaire so if you have a few minutes to help us out (or are
just curious to see our faceted search system) please see the links and
instructions below.
And many thanks to those who have already provided feedback! :)
Best,
José & Aidan
On 09-01-2018 14:18, Aidan Hogan wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A Masters student of mine (José Moreno in CC) has been working on a
> faceted navigation system for (large-scale) RDF datasets called
> "GraFa".
>
> The system is available here loaded with a recent version of Wikidata:
>
>
http://grafa.dcc.uchile.cl/
>
> Hopefully it is more or less self-explanatory for the moment. :)
>
>
> If you have a moment to spare, we would hugely appreciate it if you
> could interact with the system for a few minutes and then answer a
> quick questionnaire that should only take a couple more minutes:
>
>
https://goo.gl/forms/h07qzn0aNGsRB6ny1
>
> Just for the moment while the questionnaire is open, we would kindly
> request to send feedback to us personally (off-list) to not affect
> others' responses. We will leave the questionnaire open for a week
> until January 16th, 17:00 GMT. After that time of course we would be
> happy to discuss anything you might be interested in on the list. :)
>
> After completing the questionnaire, please also feel free to visit
> or list something you noticed on the Issue Tracker:
>
>
https://github.com/joseignm/GraFa/issues
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Aidan and José
>
>
>
>
>
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